“To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder,” or so Bernard Tschumi famously said. This image from his book Architecture and Disjunction pretty much haunted my thoughts and dreams as an undergrad. I was constantly thinking, why am I not radical enough to show a picture of someone being pushed out of a window, or allow someone to push me out of a window, or push someone out of a window?
It turns out I was just in the wrong discipline. I should have been an “urban acrobat.” Why push someone else out of a window when they can push themselves? All of the fun with none of the anger. Check out this fantastic youtube video on urban acrobatics, or parkouring. These are the kinds of spontaneous “events” that architects fantasize about, and their lawyers have nightmares about.
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I think bad architecture is a murder of space.
Comment by juric November 1, 2007 @ 8:44 pmvery interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Comment by Idetrorce December 16, 2007 @ 3:38 amIdetrorce